All the latest news from the Highland and Scottish Liberal Democrats, Angus MacDonald MP and Jamie Stone MP
Scotland is banning the use of the only spray that can control bracken, Asulox, whereas England will continue to allow it. Bracken harbours ticks which carry Lyme’s disease.
It was a call that I’d been dreading – last Thursday, Jeremy Hosking rang to say he’d had enough and was withdrawing his offer to buy Kinloch Castle on Rum.
There was only one Corran proposal on the table at the Highland Council meeting on the 11th May 2023, and all us local Cllrs supported it. It was for the maximum £50 million bid to the Westminster Levelling Up Fund.
The Highlands is becoming the home to a significant percentage of Britain’s green energy needs. Even before wind, our post war hydro dams made the Highlands 100% self sufficient in electricity.
A gorgeous castle on a Hebridean island with a world class sea view and a decent skelp of land for sale at possibly as little as a £1. Tempted?
I am a Highland Councillor for Fort William and Ardnamurchan but I write on behalf of all West Highlanders, there are few of any political persuasion who would not support my request below.
Responding to comments made by the General Secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, David Kennedy, that Police Scotland has been “asset stripped and basically used as a cash cow,” Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP said:
Responding to Public Health Scotland figures published today which show that the number of planned operations far below pre-pandemic levels, with 16.2% fewer operations planned in September 2023 than were planned in September 2019, Scottish Liberal Democr
Responding to new Public Health Scotland figures which show that 1,835 people were stuck in hospital due to a delayed discharge in September, an increase from 1,808 in August, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
Responding to new figures showing only 63.2% were seen within 4 hours at A&E in the week ending 29th October (the worst since April) and 14.4% waiting over 8 hours, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and health spokesperson Alex Cole-Hamilton said:
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader and Edinburgh Western MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton will on Tuesday 7th November lead a summit with local MSPs, MPs, council representatives and representatives of housing organisations such as Shelter, Crisis and Edinburgh Tenan
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has today called for the government to “give up the gimmicks” ahead of the King’s Speech on Tuesday.
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
